Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
"A leading Swiss industrialist and right-wing politician said yesterday the Swiss should not apologize for their business dealings with the Nazis in World War II, adding controversy to the debate about the Holocaust fund.
Christoph Blocher, chairman of the Swiss chemicals company EMS Chemie and a member of parliament said that contributing to a fund for Holocaust survivors was an admission of guilt.
Switzerland had no reason to apologize for doing business with Nazi Germany in order to survive as a neutral country during the war, Mr. Blocher said.
'The trade policy was not false; it was legal, correct and necessary for Switzerland's survival. . . I want to send the clear message that reparations or an apology are out of the question,' Mr. Blocher said.
Blick, Switzerland's largest daily, suggested on Page One that the Swiss public was fed up with the issue.
The bold headline "D'Amato: That's Enough!" was splashed across the front page of the newspaper yesterday."
D'Amato's cheeky response, which will come to haunt him yet:
"The world's has already rendered its verdict; the Swiss were guilty.
We're now debating the penalty, and the penalty should fit the crime,"
Mr. D'Amato said.
We will remember that.
Germany's national soccer team made sure of a proper ideological alignment
by means of a visit to the Holocaust memorial before an important soccer
game - a game that was reported to us as ". . . the first between Israel
and a unified Germany."
Dutifully, German captain Juergen Klinsmann intoned the prerequisite mantra:
"We must make sure to pass on what happened during the Holocaust to the next generations in Germany so that such a thing never, ever happens again . . . ''
· A Swedish resident in Stockholm who describes himself as ".
. . engaged in revisionism for a lot of time" reports that ".
. . several groups, including the Sweden Jewish community, call for a ban
on Holocaust revisionism. For this reason, it is difficult to obtain David
Irving's books in Sweden. Publishers have been threatened with arson, rape,
(and) murder. . . "
Two items of importance here, sent in by Zundelsite Watchers:
". . . on the 24th of this month, organizers of the upcoming March 1st demonstration in Munich against the shameful anti-German "Crimes of the Wehrmacht" exhibit in Munich staged a smaller scale demonstration in Marienplatz in the center of Munich.
Several hundred people took part as did several hundred additional counter demonstrators who carried signs reading, "more jobs for all, less hate against foreigners" which bewildered the demonstrators who wondered what that had to do with them protesting against the shameful "Wehrmacht Crimes" exhibit."
Since then, yesterday's march has taken place. Conservative opponents of the exhibit boycotted the opening at the city hall and instead laid a wreath at the city's memorial to the "Unknown Soldier,'' which pays tribute to nameless thousands who died fighting for Germany.
Demonstrators carried placards reading "Honour for the Wehrmacht'' and "No defamation of our brave Wehrmacht soldiers'' and scuffled with left- wing supporters of the exhibition whose banners read "Nazis out'' and "Against fascists.''
Afterwards, the lapdog media outdid itself reporting the event in sundry
ways, to wit, as per AP On-line releases:
8:44 AM (ET) 3/1 " ...about 1000 fans of Adolf Hitler clomped through Munich Saturday..."
9:35 AM (ET) 3/1 "...about 2500 fans of Adolf Hitler clomped through Munich Saturday..."
7:08 PM (ET) 3/1 " ... 5000 neo-Nazis marched through Munich
today..."
"At that rate of growth," writes another ZGram reader, "tomorrow
the whole world...!"
Yet another, who has made it his mission to check up on me every day to
make sure that my e-mail gets through (. . . a very big help, Elliot!) suggested:
". . . They don't have to use biology to clone humans as they do
sheep. It is easier done by media control and brainwashing."
The second item out of Germany has enigmatic overtones, considering the
source:
Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the central council of Jews in Germany, stated
a few days ago that the outrage in Britain over a German newspaper reference
to British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind as "the Jew Rifkind"
was "completely overdone'.
Bubis told Reuters that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's (FAZ) mention
of Rifkind's Jewish background sounded worse to English- language speakers
than to German-language speakers.
'In the English language it may be considered a profanity to call someone a Jew,'' Bubis said. 'But in German that is not the case. It depends on the context. And in the context of the FAZ article, that was clearly not the case.'''
In Canada, every effort is made to tie unhappiness with immigration matters
to the bedeviled "Nazi" image by utilizing mobs. Wrote Paul Fromm,
the teacher who was fired from his job, thanks to the Thought Crimes Cops
and self-appointed censors of B'Nai Brith:
"Last night two dozen anarchists tried to invade and disrupt a Vancouver lecture by Toronto teacher Paul Fromm, sponsored by the Canadian Association for Free Expression.
Several scruffy anarchists in their 20s forced their way into the meeting room at the Croatian Cultural Centre. They refused to pay their admission fee and refused repeated requests to leave.
Other anarchists attempted to shove their way into the meeting. They fought with several people trying to deny their admission. Speaker Paul Fromm was dragged out into the hall, assaulted, and had his suit jacket ripped, before being rescued by several sturdy union members in attendance.
Having been expelled from the meeting, the anarchists, mostly white, but including several East Indians, started to pound on the glass windows of the hall, threatening to break them. The police finally arrived and calmed the mob.
The meeting finally got under way an hour late. Part way through, the mob, now supplemented by recruits from a local radical cafe, began pounding on the windows as television cameras arrived to film the event. The television crews made no effort to interview Mr. Fromm or a CAFE spokesman.
At the end of the meeting, police escorted the 60 participants to their cars. The frustrated anarchists, having been unable to halt the meeting, denounced the police as racists, and screamed at the departing free speech supporters: "Immigrants in; Nazis out! Immigrants in, racists out.!" Others hollered: "Vancouver is a racism-free zone.!"
The anarchists had learned of the meeting from Doug Collins' column in the North Shore News. The column brought out a number of new and interested people . . .".
A "Nationalist Village Project" has been launched in Spain by
Nationalist dissidents from four different nations who have purchased a
dilapidated village in Spain miles from any real civilization in an attempt
to a
". . . return to the traditional values and moral code which in the modern 'New' age have been either deliberately stifled or forgotten."
The release describing this project speaks of
". . . a return to the natural order, starting with the individual and permeating through the family, the community and by example, sacrifice and hard work."
I don't know how I feel about that. I can see why people are attracted to
a "wilderness project" but I believe, as Ernst does, that systematically
reclaiming one's own neighborhood - by creating what Ernst calls "Gesundungszellen"
(cells that self-heal) would be more galvanizing.
Speaking of "white flight" out of the inner cities, Ernst commented:
"Not one inch of the soil that once belonged to us should we surrender!"
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"All truth is safe, and nothing else is safe."
(Max Weber in "Chips from a German Workshop")